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Born on November 22, 1965, in Numazu City, Shizuoka Prefecture. In 1992, he went to Brazil for the first time and worked as an intern at Paulista Shimbun (Japanese newspaper). In 1995, he went back to Japan, worked with Brazilians at a factory in Oizumi-machi, Gunma Prefecture and received the Ushio Nonfiction Award in 1999 for his reporting there, which was published by Ushio Publishing, titled Parallel World. In 1999, he went to Brazil again. Since 2001, he has been working at Nikkey Shimbun and assumed the position of Editor in 2004.

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